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It is compatible with Windows 32 bit (NT, and 9x), there is also a Windows 16 bit one at the same URL under folder Softlib/MSLFiles (OPENGL.EXE or OPENGL3.EXE I think).
They both are Software renderers with *OUT* source code. They use GDI to do the rendering. But I am telling you... they are *slow*. TOO slow.
- prauppl
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FlyFire/CodeX
http://codexorg.webjump.com
My recommendation - unless you are doing very basic flat-shaded scenes with very few polygons (i.e. ugly), don't use Microsoft's OpenGL software rendering. It's slow. Extra slow.
At one time SGI had their own home-baked Win95 OpenGL library that supposedly outperformed Microsoft's, but I was never able to get it to do so with the stuff I was working on.
If you've really got your heart set on software rendering, you might want to check out Mesa - it's unix-based, but maybe someone was crazy enough to port it to Windoze.
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-vince
I just think its funny how MS originally wrote a crappy renderer, and then tried to con the industry by saying "OpenGL is too slow for games, use Direct3D". 
Rock
The SGI OpenGL renderer is no longer supported, but is still available on some sites. It is better than the MS one, and will use H/W if present.
The Mesa graphics library (www.mesa3d.org) is a more complete software implementation of OpenGL (thought not licensed). It is the _only_ OpenGL implementation currently available on Linux.
As for wrappers, check out alt.software's (www.altsoftware.com) D3D wrapper. It is a full OpenGL implementation that uses D3D for the actual rendering. It is a bit slower that a true OpenGL driver, but is much better than having no H/W acceleration at all.
Hope this helps.
-Jacob
